Terms of Use

Effective November 3, 2026

One subscription opens everything, with a 30-day free trial.
Apple handles billing, cancellations and refunds.
If your subscription ends, your journal stays readable and you can still export it.
Everything in Hivecast is a recommendation. Product labels and the law come first, and decisions about your hives are yours.
Beekeeping has real risks, including stings and serious allergic reactions. You keep bees at your own risk.

1. These terms

These terms are between you and Wildfield Labs LLC, an Alabama limited liability company (“we”). They cover the Hivecast app and hivecastapp.com. By using either one, you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Hivecast.

The app is licensed to you through the App Store under Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement. These terms add to it. If the two conflict about the license to use the app, Apple’s agreement controls.

2. Who can use Hivecast

You must be at least 13. If you’re under 18, a parent or guardian should agree to these terms with you. You agree not to misuse it, copy it, or try to break or reverse engineer it, except where the law allows.

3. The subscription and free trial

One subscription. Hivecast has a single subscription, billed yearly or monthly, that opens all of its features. Current prices are shown in the app before you buy.
Free trial. New subscribers can try Hivecast free for 30 days. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, your subscription starts and your Apple Account is charged.
Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Your Apple Account is charged within the 24 hours before renewal.
Cancelling. You can cancel any time in your Apple Account subscription settings. Your access continues until the end of the period you’ve paid for. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel your subscription.
Refunds. Apple processes all payments and decides refunds. You can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We can’t issue refunds ourselves.
Price changes. If a price changes, you’ll be told in advance as Apple’s rules require.

4. Founding Beekeeper

For a limited time after launch, we may offer Founding Beekeeper, a one-time purchase that isn’t a subscription and doesn’t renew. It opens the features the subscription opens for the life of the app, meaning for as long as we offer and support Hivecast. It doesn’t mean the life of a person, and it can’t be guaranteed for any set number of years. It stays with your Apple Account and can be restored with Restore purchases.

5. If your subscription ends

When a trial or subscription ends, the Hive, Forage and Colony tabs are locked and reminders and alerts stop. Your records are always yours: the Journal stays readable, and you can still export your records and make a backup. You can’t add new entries or hives until you subscribe again.

6. Beekeeping advice

Everything Hivecast offers is a recommendation, not an instruction or a guarantee. It’s general information for beekeepers. It isn’t professional, veterinary, legal or medical advice, and it can be wrong. Its forecasts, bloom dates, entrance traffic, mite thresholds and treatment suggestions are estimates based on outside data and models, and they can’t see your hive.

Treatments: always read and follow the product’s current label. The label and the laws where you are take priority over anything in Hivecast.
Local rules: you’re responsible for following federal, state and local rules, including any registration, inspection and food safety rules for selling honey.

You’re responsible for the decisions you make about your bees, and for checking anything important with a local beekeeper, inspector or extension service.

7. Beekeeping risks are yours

Beekeeping is a physical, outdoor activity with live stinging insects, and it can be dangerous. Risks include stings; severe allergic reactions, which can be life-threatening and can happen to someone who has never reacted before; heavy lifting; smoke and fire; heat; tools; treatment chemicals; and handling honey as food. Bees can also sting neighbors, visitors and animals. Talk to a doctor about your own health before you keep bees, use protective gear, and in an emergency call your local emergency number. Hivecast can’t tell you whether beekeeping is safe for you.

You choose to keep bees, and you accept these risks. To the extent the law allows, Wildfield Labs LLC isn’t responsible for any injury, illness, allergic reaction, health condition or death, for harm to other people, animals or property, or for the loss of a colony, that comes from beekeeping, from how you keep bees, or from following or not following anything in Hivecast.

8. Your data

What you enter belongs to you and is stored on your device, as described in our Privacy Policy. Because we don’t hold a copy, we can’t recover it if it’s lost. Keeping backups is up to you.

9. Other services

Hivecast relies on outside services, including weather and place search, which can be late, wrong or unavailable. We aren’t responsible for them.

10. Our content

Hivecast, including its design, text, guides and artwork, belongs to Wildfield Labs LLC or those who license it to us. Third-party data and photos are credited in the app and remain under their own licenses. Other names, such as Flow and Flow Hive, are trademarks of their owners and are used only to describe equipment. Hivecast isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by them.

11. No warranties

HIVECAST IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DON’T PROMISE THAT HIVECAST WILL BE ACCURATE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

12. Limit on liability

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WILDFIELD LABS LLC WON’T BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR PERSONAL INJURY, ILLNESS, OR LOSS OF BEES, HIVES, HONEY, CROPS, INCOME OR DATA. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM WON’T BE MORE THAN THE GREATER OF WHAT YOU PAID FOR HIVECAST IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR $50. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

13. Claims from others

You keep bees and use Hivecast at your own responsibility. If someone else makes a claim against Wildfield Labs LLC because of your beekeeping, your bees, or your use of Hivecast, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim, including legal fees, to the extent the law allows.

14. Changes

We may change or stop Hivecast or any part of it. We may also update these terms. If we do, we’ll post the new version here with a new date. Continuing to use Hivecast after that means you accept it.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Alabama, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute goes to the state or federal courts in Jefferson County, Alabama. Nothing here takes away consumer rights you have under the laws where you live.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected]